Discrediting or disbelieving.
A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
An insinuation or innuendo.
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
To run together; to articulate poorly.
To insult or slight.
To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.